International impact investor Acumen and the UK funded private sector initiative Invest Salone have revised the Investment Toolkit for SMEs in Sierra Leone for 2025, marking another step forward in strengthening Sierra Leone’s entrepreneurial...
Find out how Invest Salone is working with the tourism sector to overcome challenges and identify opportunities for growth.
This issue is a round-up of Invest Salone’s work supporting private sector investment and growth in Sierra Leone. It features highlights from the Sierra Leone Investment Summit, an agribusiness investment field trip, collaboration with banks on sustainable lending and stories on how tourism, arts and food are being showcased through Invest Salone’s Made in Salone initiative.
The voluntary carbon market is a growing global industry that offers great potential for Sierra Leone to channel climate finance to support economic development and could provide significant opportunities for investors. This investment insight provides an industry snapshot and explores the opportunities, challenges and next steps to establish a regulated carbon marketplace.
This issue is a round-up of Invest Salone’s work driving private sector growth in Sierra Leone. It features highlights from our collaboration with international finance institutions, the successful launch of the country’s first local currency corporate bond, new insights on the voluntary carbon market, and initiatives to strengthen sustainable finance, fashion and textiles, and innovation.
This infographic explains how Invest Salone is working with businesses and the wider fashion and textiles industry to address sectorwide constraints to growth and competitiveness and encourage investment.
A review of the the carbon market in Sierra Leone, including stakeholder priorities, opportunities for support, areas of risk and recommendations.
This issue is a round-up of Invest Salone’s work supporting private sector–led growth in Sierra Leone. It includes highlights from our impact to date in unlocking investment and strengthening businesses, updates on the poultry feed sector and investment opportunities, insights from our Technical Assistance Facility and stories on how our partnerships are helping women entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses.
Supporting women to build profitable and sustainable businesses not only benefits them but also their communities and countries. Find out how Invest Salone is working with its partners to invest in women and accelerate progress.
This report is based on a scoping visit to Sierra Leone and engagement with the six largest poultry companies in the country to identify the challenges and opportunities for Sierra Leone’s poultry sector.